How Much Is a Million? 20th Anniversary Edition (Reading Rainbow Books)Paperback – December 28, 2004 by David M. Schwartz (Author), Steven Kellogg (Illustrator) 4.6 out of 5 stars 60 customer reviews How much is a Million Age Range: 4 - 8 years Grade Level: Kindergarten - 3 Lexile Measure: 640 (What's this?) Series: Reading Rainbow Books Publisher: Collins; Reissue edition (December 28, 2004) ISBN-13: 978-0688099336 How much is a Million is a book that describe how much a million would really be. This is a great book for children in early elementary. Children get don’t understand how much something really would be. This book gives examples of a million. My favorite example is when the author states that if there were 1 million tiny stars on the page there would be 74 pages of stars. The author then included 6 pages of tiny stars. This would give students a concept of the massive amount of 1 million. The book introduces the base 10 number system that starts with 1 and continues to 1,000,000. I wish the book included at least a page on a smaller unit concept. This would make number comparisons easier. This is the only flaw I can identify. Editorial Review: Is it possible that How Much Is A Million? has been out for twenty years already? It is a rare book in the publishing world that remains in print for that length of time. When it does it is generally one that children find intriguing, parents find important, and teachers find useful. This book is the perfect trifecta! A concept book at heart, How Much Is A Million? strives to provide children with tangible ways to grasp what exactly a million of something might look like. There are many adults who would be hard-pressed to understand what a million looks like. Schwartz uses something children know like goldfish and shows that if a goldfish bowl could hold a million goldfish, then the bowl would be big enough to hold a whale. Kellogg's illustrations are integral to the text in this book; it is important that children "see" what that would look like. Kellogg draws a whale in an enormous goldfish bowl with children standing beside it to give it a visual scale. In example after example, Schwartz and Kellogg team up to assist children in understanding what would otherwise be an incomprehensible notion. How much IS a million? 2005 (orig. 1985), HarperCollins, Ages 3 to 6. —Joan Kindig, Ph.D. Children's Literature Awards Reading Rainbow Book Horn Book Fanfare Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Honor Book Beehive Award (Utah) Bank Street Children's Book Award ALA Notable Children's Book ALA Booklist Editors' Choice Activities One of my favorite activities is reading a book and then finding a video of the book. To aid in reading comprehension students can complete the following worksheet. Legos: Give your child a box of 500 Legos. Talk to the child about how many more Legos it would take to get 1000 and then 1,000,000.Give your child a box of 500 Legos. Talk to the child about how many more Legos it would take to get 1000 and then 1,000,000. Counting to 1000 ideas The following ideas will get your child to count to 1000 which will also help with identifying how much 1,000,000 is. Penny Tower: Have your child build a tower of 1000 pennies. (Make sure you go to the bank) Interactive number line: Use painters tape to make a number line where you can add various items that equals a certain number. This is where you can keep track of all of the “mistakes” when trying to get to 1,000,000. Skip Counting: Have your child count various numbers by 10. Websites:
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/books/how-much-is-a-million-by-david-m-schwartz/ https://teachers.net/lessons/posts/1863.html https://hubpages.com/education/Best-Childrens-Books-to-Teach-Place-Value-and-Base-Ten
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